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Fresh Fiber Revisited: Work by Emerging Textile Artists from RISD, UMass-Dartmouth, and MassART
January 7, 2012 – April 22, 2012

Opening Reception
Sunday, February 5, 2:00 - 5:00 pm

Fresh Fiber Revisited: Work by Emerging Textile Artists from RISD, UMass-Dartmouth, and MassART brings back together fiber and textile design programs from three prominent universities, allowing visitors to experience the wide range of possibilities within the field of fiber art.

Michael Cooper: A Sculptural Odyssey, 1968 – 2011
November 12, 2011 – May 13, 2012

Opening Reception
Sunday, November 20, 2:00 - 5:00 pm

Organized by the Museum of Craft and Design, San Francisco and guest curator Harold B. Nelson. Michael Cooper is best known for his adroitly crafted mixed-media sculpture, works that depict seemingly commonplace objects transformed by the artist's wit, keen insight into human nature, and extraordinary technical facility. His fantastical "vehicles," including pistol-packing tricycles, astoundingly intricate wooden hot rods that don't quite go anywhere, and curiously mobile forms of "furniture," underscore his role as one of the most imaginative sculptors working today.

Related programming has been made possible through funding from the Collectors of Wood Art. This exhibition has been made possible through funding from the Windgate Charitable Foundation.

Anne Drew Potter. Baby Baby (detail),
2009 – 2011, 13" x 22" x 5"

Fresh Figurines: A New Look at a Historic Art Form
October 8, 2011 – February 5, 2012

Curated by Gail M. Brown, Fresh Figurines presents the continually evolving traditions of figurative ceramics. Form, scale, the body as object, and the symbolic implications of the human form are explored by a number of artists working in ceramics today. 

Icarus: An Installation by Mark Davis
April 9, 2011 – March 15, 2012

Sculptor Mark Davis produces poetic mobile constructions of burnished and painted aluminum. He created a site-specific mobile for the museum's courtyard gallery inspired by the story of Icarus, who flew too close to the sun and fell into the sea.

Traditions and Innovations:
Fuller Craft Museum Collects
On view beginning October 22, 2011

In October, the Lampos Gallery will be dedicated to the ongoing exhibition of the Museum's growing permanent collection. Organized thematically and rotated annually, the permanent collection gallery will not only share the incredible objects in the collection, but also give a theoretical context to the visitors' experience of the museum and its other changing exhibitions. 

Fold It: Deena Schnitman
On view in the café

On view in the café is an installation of cookbooks installed by Deena Schnitman. The six designs are created from one basic fold.

Dan Dailey: Working Method
February 18, 2012 – September 3, 2012

Lecture: Working Methods—A Conversation with Dan Dailey
Sunday, June 3, 12:30 pm

Opening Reception:
Sunday, June 3, 2:00 - 5:00 pm

Dan Dailey: Working Method is a retrospective exhibition with a particular focus on the various methods and techniques employed by glass artist Dan Dailey over his 40-year career. Dailey, the first graduate student of Dale Chihuly, has pursued his own unique voice in glass, from his singular work in antique Vitrolite sheet glass to complex constructions of blown glass and metal.  By pairing each work with the very drawings and models used in planning and production, as well as images and video of Dailey and his team at work, this exhibition endeavors to pull back the curtain on the incredible choreography of technique and vision that make contemporary glass one of the most demanding, exciting, and unparalleled art forms today.

Mens et Manus: Folded Paper of MIT
February 4, 2012 – April 29, 2012

Lecture: Folding Paper: Visual Art Meets Mathematics
Sunday, February 5, 1:00 pm
Members $7 • Nonmembers $18

Opening Reception:
Sunday, February 5, 2:00 - 5:00 pm

Mens et Manus is an introduction to the work of MIT students, alumni, and faculty who have made the school a hub for a stimulating community of artists in folded paper. Paper folding—or origami as it is also popularly known—is the practice of transforming paper into complex representational and abstract three-dimensional sculpture through a series of complex folds. Abstract or geometric expressions in paper folding may be used to explore mathematical questions or problems, and often result in new patterns, new forms, and new ideas. For these artists, folded paper serves as the nexus between mathematical and aesthetic inquiry, uniting mind and hand, mens et manus.